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Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

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Poetry
Chapter: 26 | Listen: 3

This is a selection of the early poetry of Oscar Wilde, selected by Robert Ross. As he puts it, “It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-six years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and last phases of Oscar Wilde’s literary activity. The intervening period was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and criticism.” – Summary by Carolin and Robert Ross [chương_files]

23/07/2024

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Science
Chapter: 7 | Listen:

Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett wrote Southern Horrors, a pamphlet in which she exposed the horrible reality of lynchings to the rest of the nation and to the world. Wells explained, through case study, how the federal government’s failure to intervene allowed Southern states the latitude to slowly but effectively disenfranchise blacks from participating as free men and women in a post-Civil War America with the rights and opportunities guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution. [chương_files]

Miracle, and Other Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 60 | Listen: 3

This is the only volume of poetry by Canadian author Virna Sheard. In this volume, Ms Sheard shares all kinds of different emotions, and some stories. As the Boston Globe put it, “A study of The Miracle and Other Poems shows at once that the author is not merely a Canadian poet; her outlook and her range know little of time or place; she belongs to the readers of poetry at large.” (quoted in Canadian poets and poetry (1916), JW Garvin, ed.) – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

23/07/2024

Five Lectures on Blindness

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction, Science
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 1

The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the summer of 1918. . . they are the outgrowth of almost a quarter of a century spent in work for the blind, and were written from the standpoint of a blind person, seeking to better the condition of the blind. They were addressed not to the blind, but to the seeing public, for the benefit that will accrue to the blind from a better understanding of their problems. (Extract from the Forward by Milton J. Ferguson) [chương_files]

Flame and Shadow

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Poetry
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 2

This is a 1920 collection of poetry by American poet Sara Teasdale. The collection comprises 92 poems, which are grouped together into 12 sets. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2)

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Poetry
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 1

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally essential polarities. Good, in Blake’s complex cosmology, is defined by a blind deference to the external, rational order embodied by the tyrant and the priest. Evil is the chaotic and revolutionary impulse that defies all reason and authority. While Blake’s sympathies are clearly with the Romantic revolutionary, he argues for the necessity of both sides, which create balance through their eternal opposition. (Summary by PJ Taylor) [chương_files]

Town Down the River: A Book of Poems

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Poetry
Chapter: 33 | Listen: 2

This is a volume of poetry by Edwin Arlington Robinson, dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. This volume also contains his lesser known shorter poems as well as the well-known narrative poem Miniver Cheevy. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Poems for my Children

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 1

Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, ‘Dionysus the Areopagite’, ‘Poems For My Children’ was Ann Hawkshaw’s second collection of poetry. The poems are dedicated to her six children and many are written in an intimate conversational style. ‘Ada’, the final poem in the collection, is a memorial for her second child, who had died of hydrocephalus shortly before her fifth birthday. Five historical poems, set in the times of the Druids, the Romans the Saxons, the Normans and the Crusades, punctuate the collection and anticipate her later collection, ‘Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History’. (Phil Benson) [chương_files]

New Thought Pastels

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Poetry
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 6

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. While the volume is relatively small, it has been reprinted many times and gained quite some popularity. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

From Distant Shores

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Poetry
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 3

This is a small volume of poems by Canadian women’s rights activist and educator Mary Adams. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]